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This section contains information about phenomena that are generally believed to have a supernatural, mystical nature, and the very existence of which is currently in doubt.Phenomena Hierarchy

Tupilak

Added	Fri, 09/11/2018
Hierarchy	Phenomena Неизвестные существа Spirits Неупокоенные духи Тупилак
Область распространения	Greenland
Характерные признаки	→ → → →
Sources	bestiary.us ru.wikipedia.org

A creature created by the shaman of the mythology of the Greenland Inuit. The Greenlandic eskimo language, the word "tupilaq" means soul or spirit of a deceased person. In Greenlandic eskimo mythology it was endowed with life doll from dead flesh.

Iglikov he was considered invisible spirit of a recently deceased person deprived of rest because of a violation of any taboo, who was only capable shaman.

From the Inuit caribou tupilak also appeared in the image is visible only to the shaman's spirit, representing a chimerical kind of creature with a human head and body parts of various animals.

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